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The gamification seems really unnecessary for a social network. It may improve retention rates, but only for a very small demographic (that I'm definitely not a part of). The consensus in the comments seems to be that there are some other bad decisions that went into it too...
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Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
My last name is koc (turkish..) and it's funny to observe english speaking people trying not to spell it like "cock".
Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…
I live across a river from Burma, and I can tell you it's at least an order of magnitude easier for people there to get access to a smartphone than a desktop or laptop.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-fa...
I mean, I agree that it's a deal-killer for people like you and me, but the idea that it would make it less suitable for underdeveloped countries is just silly.
I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
There are plenty of reasons to not want to use a mobile-only social network. I really like the concept of meeting new people based on interests (it's something I've been missing since ICQ, which had that functionality, was replaced with inferior alternatives like MSN messenger) but there's no way I'm getting into this mobile-only train for applications that don't have any reason to be mobile only.
If you click on the turkish version of the announcement, "gay" is replaced with "different" (in Turkish of course). Do people in Turkey say "farkli" (different) when they mean "gay"? Checked and all other translations actually say gay or homosexual. https://web.archive.org/web/20160708083122/http://orkut.com/...
I think in some contexts using word "farklı" (different) may imply the meaning. However, in the Turkish version of the article this is not the case. Most proper word for "gay" in Turkish is "eşcinsel". He should have used it. "gay" is also used as a loan word in informal speech.
Orkut was our go-to social network as teens, before we all moved to Facebook in 2009. I'm was going to join this out of sheer nostalgia, but it appears to be lacking a web app. I'm curious as to why they went with ONLY native Android / iOS apps. That will not only drive away people like me, who prefer to use things from a desktop web browser, but also people in developing countries who might not have access to a smar…
People in such countries are actually more likely to have access to a smartphone, specifically one of the myriad cheap Android devices one finds all over the world, than to a desktop web browser.
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Doesn't it suck for anything but simplest forms of communication? I mean, I just can't stand touch-typing anything but very short messages. Whenever there's any conversation that involves more typing than posting a meme picture and replying with "lol" I run for a real terminal, with a real physical keyboard. I don't know about others, but for me being significantly slowed down with typing is frustrating. And I hope t…
>> "I don't know about others, but for me being significantly slowed down with typing is frustrating. And I hope to believe I'm not an outstandingly slow with touchscreen keyboards..." Just anecdotally watching people type I think that the general consumer who isn't typing on a real keyboard all day, is actually much quicker on a phone. Look at teenagers - they spend much of their day communicating on a phone hence t…
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Wait, so the guy's name means orgasms? Oh dear oh dear. This must cause problems for Turkish men in Finland. Kind of like the unfortunate Indian family name Dikshit.
AFAIK it might be more common than you think. I have a female friend who's firstname is Fanny and another one who's lastname is Cocq. They both expect a few laugh when they introduce themselves in english speaking countries.
"We are living in a strange time. We hide behind our devices, ignoring the people around us." So... a mobile app is the solution?
There is the definite potential for a device to change the way we hide behind devices into an opportunity to meet people and connect.
I'm echoing what others are saying: no web version means I won't bother at all. My phone has access to multiple great browsers. Building a good lightweight web app means I can access the content from anywhere without having to deal with annoyances of push notifications or (as much) creepy tracking. My favorite example of a mobile web app is currently Twitter Mobile [0]. I even like using it from my desktop. It's very…
If the concept here is a social network which brings us closer to people who have similar interests and are geographically close to us then that is really cool. But a couple things don't feel right to me. 1) No web app - honestly I'm over installing apps and being bound to my phone. You lost me here. 2) A bit of 'wall of text' explaining what this is and I appreciate that the orkut.com bit is heartfelt, but this is n…